Kazuya Minekura

Kazuya Minekura (Japanese峰倉 かずや, Minekura Kazuya, born March 23, 1975 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist.

Biography

Because they do not go after graduating from high school to university, but not already wanted to pursue a proper work Minekura participated in the second year of high school participated in a manga contest and won it. Her debut as a professional cartoonist she subsequently published in 1993 with the first chapter of the Boys -Love- Brother series in the manga magazine Comic Genki. The manga was later released as an anthology in the rapport -Verlag. With Just! began in 1994 in the magazine Chara another series about a relationship between gay men. The same concept they took from 1999 to 2000 with Shiritsu Gakko Seitokai Araiso Kōtō Shikkōbu again, a two-volume work, which was implemented in 2002 as an original video animation.

Minekuras biggest success of the manga Saiyuki, one of the classic Chinese novel The Journey to the West. In this series, she worked from 1996 to 2002 for Square Enix and its G- Fantasy magazine, then she moved the publishing and leads the history since 2002 in the magazine Zero - Sum under the title Saiyuki Reload continues. The manga has been translated into numerous languages ​​, implemented in the form of two anime television series and multiple processed as Merchandise. The nine anthologies of the first manga series sold more than 4.5 million times. Minekura told in Saiyuki of a world in which suddenly the peaceful coexistence of demons and men is disturbed, as some demons begin to attack people. The four protagonists are to go to the West to find out the reason. By Bishonen occurrence of the main characters of the manga is popular in Japan, especially among girls and young women.

The characters in Saiyuki have a dramatic history, respectively. In the past, the main characters of the signatory enters into the gambling 500 years before the plot of the main series Saiyuki Gaiden series closer. Started for the magazine G Fantasy in 1999, this prequel was published between 2002 and 2009 in the manga magazine Ward.

Started in 1999, the two comics illustrator stigma in Wings magazine and Bus Gamer in Stencil Magazine, where stigma, atypical for mangas, fully appeared in color. Since 2001 Minekura records for Chara at the Boys Love manga Wild Adapter, which is as yet six anthologies.

So far, Kazuya Minekura has released eight Artbooks with illustrations to Saiyuki, three in the series backgammon and five in the series salty dog.

Works

  • Brother, 1993-1994
  • Just! , 1994
  • Saiyuki (最 游记, Saiyuki ), 1996-2002
  • Shiritsu Gakko Seitokai Araiso Kōtō Shikkōbu (私立 荒 矶 高等学校 生 徒 会 执行 部), 1999-2000
  • Stigma (スティグマ, sutiguma ), 1999-2000
  • Saiyuki Gaiden (最 游记 外 伝), 1999-2000, 2002-2009
  • Bus Gamer, 1999-2002
  • Wild Adapter, since 2001
  • Saiyuki Reload (最 游记RELOAD ), since 2002
  • Hachi no Su (蜂の巣), since 2003
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